Dinosaur Jr - Been There All The Time [YouTube] (Who does J Mascis now look like? The obvious pick is Kurt Cobain when he came onstage at Reading in a wheelchair and a long blonde wig, with more than a hint of outgrown Jimmy Saville)

John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown [mp3 from I Guess I'm Floating] (Somewhat bizarrely this was played over the credits of last week's Sopranos on HBO. By necessity you wouldn't imagine JCC had a great US following, but that's how this shrinking media world can surprise us nowadays

Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! [Myspace] (Their next single, out June 4th, almost a year after we first raved about its wondrousness. And they've just signed to Arts & Crafts in the US, home of Broken Social Scene and similar, and they're on the Lollapalooza bill. This is none of our indirect work at all, of course, but we're happy to take any residual credit)